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"Noch sei nicht aller Tage Abend gekommen."
"[...], ihre Freunde nach den Thaten, nicht nach den Worten abzuwägen;"
"[...] je bekannter man mit einem Übel sei, je erträglicher sei es, [...]"
"Es giebt nirgend Mühe ohne Ertrag, und eben so nicht leicht Ertrag ohne aufgewandte Mühe. Arbeit und Vergnügen, ihrer Natur nach mit einander im Widerspruche, sind durch ein gewisses natürliches Band wieder an einander geknüpft."
"[...] dass Einfluss und Ehre nicht selten dem entgegen kommen, der sie am wenigsten sucht."
"Also war das Glück – wie auch sonst oft – dem Tüchtigen hold."
"Große Selbstsicherheit gewinne man durch hohe Ämter."
"[...] Himmel und Erde in Bewegung setzen [...]"
"[...] und lieber zu spät, als nie, [...]"
"So kehrt Ruhm, den man zur rechten Zeit verschmäht, zuweilen in reicherem Maß wieder zu einem zurück."
"[...] und wo es keine Absicht gegeben habe, da gebe es auch keine Schuld."
"[wie gewöhnlich] das Schlechte sich gern dem Schlechten anschliesst."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.